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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Power Auer: Cheers to the upsets and surprise teams

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nicole Auerbach and Chris Vannini cover college football's week 2 hot topics!

Power 5: Nebraska fired Scott Frost. Michigan names a QB, Iowa's offensive struggles, CFB TV viewership is up & important FBS business meetings.

Happy Hour: The new EA Sports College Football game is scheduled to be released in July 2023.

On the Rocks: Marcus Freeman is 0-3 as the Notre Dame Head Coach and Texas A&M loses to App State.

Last Call: Cheers to the Sun Belt, upsets and surprise teams like Kansas, Oregon State, Duke and Syracuse.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Power Hour, weekly show hosted by me, Nicole Auerbach.

0:22.8

I'm joined today by Athletics Senior Writer, Chris Vanini.

0:26.3

Chris, hello, welcome the show.

0:28.8

Nicole's good to be here.

0:29.7

It's been two weeks of the season now.

0:32.2

And madness.

0:34.8

This feels like another chaotic season potentially in the books.

0:38.2

What do you think?

0:45.9

Yeah, I hope so. I mean, it definitely feels that way when you have the big story coming out of the weekend being about the Sun Belt East.

0:51.5

It feels like it's going to be a special season. Before we get into that and all the top stories of the week,

0:55.2

I did want to remind everyone that the Andy Staples show and friends feed is back in action now that the season is in full swing. You'll find Max Olson,

1:00.9

Sam Khan, and more of our pals on this feed throughout the week. I'll be joining Andy and Ari

1:06.0

for the Friday preview show each week. And well, this week, I'm extremely excited to witness Andy's efforts to

1:11.8

eat an entire jar of mustard. It'll be a touchdown in his mouth. And I'm very excited for that

1:16.7

part of the week. But before we get to those shenanigans, I'm excited to bring you today's episode

1:22.2

of power hour. We'll break down everything you need to know in college football in an hour or less.

1:26.8

And if you're thirsty while doing so, we'll feel free to grab a cold one. We'll start with the Power 5 in true

1:32.2

power hour fashion. Give ourselves about a minute to cover one of the hottest topics in college football

1:37.4

before the buzzer sounds. And it's time to move on to the next. Chris, I will go first.

1:43.9

The first number one, Nebraska, moving on from Scott Frost

1:48.5

three weeks ahead of schedule, willing to pay seven and a half million dollars extra to do so.

1:54.8

Mickey Joseph named the interim head coach, the first black head coach of any sport for the

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